Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has ordered an enquiry into why Egypt performed poorly in the Olympics, reports Tom Gara.
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“I am no linguist, but as far as I can remember I have always held a strange fascination for Language,” notes Iraqi blogger Layla Anwar.
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“We had rain today. It rained for about five minutes. Just long enough to churn up the sewer system.
Now all of Tripoli smells like sewer gas,” writes Khadija Teri, from Libya.
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Recently, MediaShift started running reports from correspondents and embeds around the world. This report comes from Jaron Gilinsky, a journalist and documentary filmmaker in Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM — Blogs exemplify the best and worst attributes of the
The startling result was healthy septuplets -- four boys and three girls -- heralded by Egyptian doctors as a miracle. But debate persists about the ethics of fertility treatment in a nation where medical oversight is lax, incubators and neonatal
JERUSALEM, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- An Israeli ministerial committee is set to discuss captive soldier Gilad Shalit deal on Sunday, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has asked it to draft a list of 450 prisoners that Israel may release in exchange for the
Efforts are underway to restore the Shura Council's meeting hall before the new parliamentary session begins next November, reports Gamal Essam
Cairo hosts yet another round of talks with Palestinian factions, the US secretary of state makes her 18th visit to the region and Israel releases 198 Palestinian prisoners. But is there any real progress on the ground?
A single bronze is all Egypt could manage in Beijing. Why, asks Inas Mazhar Before the Olympic Games had ended most members of the Egyptian delegation were back home and apart from Hisham Misbah's bronze in judo there were no medals hanging round their
Nevine El-Aref sees how cultural palaces and public libraries are spreading their wings to the public Children and teenagers at the Luxor and Mansoura libraries; the map hall in Mansoura Library (far left); Al-Fayoum Cultural House (below) They are the